Story time. I was on a train in Spain crossing the plain eating plantains maintaining my brain. Ok, that last part was wrong. I was on a train in Spain, but it was going along the Mediterranean coast. It was somewhere between the French border and Barcelona. And I was...

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t frequently read in the YA (young adult) genre, but when I hear other grown-ups call it their favorite, I understand why. YA authors know that kids respond to obscurity with boredom. Most kids in that...

Few books encourage me to take longer and longer to digest them the more I read. Revolutionary Road is one of them. I managed to get this one done in about a year. I tried to drain the beast dry. The “Greatest Generation” and their lives in the 50s and 60s...

“MUSIK4U” Through the misty cover of the surface effect, The strums of lazy guitar and soft, stifled coughs. The vape gives up its cloud of forgetting: A weedy trade for his half-broke bass amp. Orange County never was the place. It never was the place. It...

Oh, no, no! I couldn’t even dream of turning pro. No way! But I was really, really happy with how things worked out up there. I’m still kind-of riding a high. I really got lucky. I have fun with it, the racing. I think it’s fair to say it’s...

Author of the new novel "Eye of the Diamond-T" available on Amazon in print/Kindle and wherever fine ebooks are sold. Recovering microserf. Motorcyclist, musician, promoter and mini-sensation. More info at www.diamondtbook.com